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The usual blackout on detailed & truthful information is being enforced...

To tell the truth I don't blame the authorities for playing close to the vest on this one. I'm here sitting on pins and needles waiting for the copycats to come out. You know as well as I that it's only a matter of time before those a$$holes make themselves known.

I was married for two ******* years! Hell would be like Club Med! - Sam Kinison

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To tell the truth I don't blame the authorities for playing close to the vest on this one. I'm here sitting on pins and needles waiting for the copycats to come out. You know as well as I that it's only a matter of time before those a$$holes make themselves known.

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He took Suite 32135, one of the hotel’s “Vista” suites, which spread out over 1,700 square feet and offer floor-to-ceiling windows. “This is the perfect Las Vegas suite for those who seek the perfect views,” the hotel’s website says.

He brought in more than 10 suitcases during his stay, but no one saw anything amiss, the sheriff said.

Ten suit cases......So the bellman unknowingly carried up his weapons for him.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
― Lewis Carroll

So there you have it, the solution from the left for our protection is to ban everything, turn the country into a Federal Police State. in short, eliminate all freedom for the security that will never happen.

“Breaking News,”

“Something irrelevant in your life just happened and now we are going to blow it all out of proportion for days to keep you distracted from what's really going on.”

On Sunday night, Toni Mullan drove 110 miles an hour on side streets from home to get back to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where she had just worked a 12-hour shift as a clinical supervisor in the trauma resuscitation department. Her car was smoking as she pulled into a three-hour parking spot close to the trauma center. Ms. Mullan, 54, left her hazard lights blinking as she shut the car door and raced inside.

Around a dozen patients had already arrived from the shooting scene at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Two were dead and two had been “black tagged” — fully assessed and found to have injuries that were not survivable. Ms. Mullan’s daughter, Antoinette Cannon, 29, a trauma nurse who also works at the hospital, was standing out front with a physician assistant, taking injured patients out of vehicles as they drove up to the hospital and quickly assessing whose conditions were the most precarious.

“The minute I got there, I looked at the situation and said ‘How am I going to utilize my resources?’ ” Ms. Mullan, a registered nurse, said in a telephone interview Monday morning. By daybreak, 104 patients had arrived.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”
― Lewis Carroll

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Well its used the world over to stop people doing things like flying passenger aircraft. Would you quibble about allowing someone with a mental illness to operate a missile silo, handle nuclear warheads etc?

I believe everyone should have the right to nuclear weapons, so I'm not the best one to ask said question.

But more to the point is that "mental illness" is the fluid element here. Women who were unhappy with their marriages back when divorce was unthinkable could be labeled as mentally ill back in the day, but such definitions have changed.

The crux of the issue is the Constitution. Bearing arms is enshrined by America, for better or for worse depending on ones perspective. That puts it up there with other elements of the bill of rights like free speech.

An inverse of your question would be if you would quibble if the government decided that bipolar people should not be allowed to assemble peacefully.

It's not the right itself I was pointing out as an issue, just that in a world where homosexuality was consider mental illness only a short time ago (and still is to many), using such nebulous reasons for removing rights is a minefield in any direction.